Mark 1:19-20

When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

From Background Notes [BN] for March 3^rd/4^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What about Zebedee?

 

Who? You know, the father of James and John, the patriarch of the family business. Both Matthew and Mark remind the reader that he was “in the boat” along with the “hired hands.” How must this have struck old Zebedee? He doesn’t speak in the Gospel narratives, but he no doubt had an opinion about what was happening. Here were his two sons, partners to Simon and Andrew (Luke 5:10), simply dropping everything and leaving him holding the nets. James and John weren’t just making a decision affecting themselves. They were changing their father’s future too. Perhaps the hired men in the boat would inherit the fishing enterprise. That wasn’t the future Zebedee imagined. You and I may have children who decide to follow Jesus and then tell us that their futures are not what we had once planned for them. Are we able to accept the cost of discipleship when it means letting our children go so that they can be Jesus’ disciples? Many parents have done so and watched their children take enormous risks to advance God’s kingdom.   [BN, 3]

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